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| Title | Mess hall crew and dog at camp, Ward-Sargent Timber Company, Ocosta, ca. 1928 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | ca. 1928 |
| Notes | PH Coll 516.4567 |
| Contextual Notes | The Ward-Sargent Timber Company was headquartered at Aberdeen and had a logging camp at Ocosta. The company appears to have started business ca. 1927 and was out of business by 1930.
Ocosta was a boom town established in 1892, and nearly deserted by 1930, on the south shore of Grays Harbor, across South Bay from Westport in southwest Grays Harbor County. It was named by Judge William H. Calkins of Tacoma and Mrs. George E. Filley of Olympia. They used the Spanish La Costa, but substituted O for La, to make a one-word name acceptable to postal authorities. A poetic variation, used in advertising the embryo town, was Ocosta By The Sea. The Indian name was Nu-shis-tska. The name is now used by the community and the local school district which now includes the community of Westport.
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Mess halls--Washington (State)--Ocosta
Dogs--Washington (State)--Ocosta
Ward-Sargent Timber Company--People--Washington (State)--Ocosta
Ward-Sargent Timber Company--Facilities--Washington (State)--Ocosta
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Cooks--Washington (State)--Ocosta
Waitresses--Washington (State)--Ocosta
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County--Ocosta |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK01477 |
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| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 4567
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL or 9800XL at 100 ppi in grayscale. Resized using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or 8.0 so that the long dimension was either 768 pixels horizontal or 600 pixels vertical, then saved in JPEG format at quality rating 3. 2004 |
